Tip Snooke

South Africa •
85 years old

Sibley John Snooke

Born on
February 01, 1881 at St Mark's, Tembuland

Right Handed Batsman
and Right-arm fast-medium bowler

Teams played for South Africa

Sibley John Snooke a.k.a Tip Snooke started his career with Border at the age of 17, he went onto play for Western Province and Transvaal as well. Snooke is a right-hand batsman and a right-arm fast m...
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Batting stats

M

Inn

Runs

HS

Avg

SR

NO

100

50

4s

6s

Tests

26

46

1008

103

22.4

0

1

1

5

56

0

Bowling stats

M

Inn

B

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Econ

Avg

SR

5W

10W

Tests

26

29

1620

702

35

70 / 8

127 / 12

2.6

20.06

46.29

1

1

ICC Rankings

Batting

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

9

ODI

--

-

Bowling

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

5

ODI

--

-

-- indicates player not in top 100Rank changes shown are of the last 30 days

Sibley John Snooke a.k.a Tip Snooke started his career with Border at the age of 17, he went onto play for Western Province and Transvaal as well. Snooke is a right-hand batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler who played 26 Tests for his country. He also captained South Africa against England in 1909-10, he has a Test hundred against Australia and has also picked up 35 wickets at an average of 20.

Snooke had a long first-class career, he played 124 matches which is high for a South African and scored 4821 runs and also scalped 120 wickets. His brother, S.D.Snooke, also played for South Africa. Tip died in Port Elizabeth in 1966, aged 85.